Quotes from Gerald M. Lemole

Polyphenols—micronutrients found in most every plant—have a variety of health benefits. You can find them in

We Eat the Wrong Kinds of Fats: A typical American diet averages 34 to 40 percent fat. Even as far back as 1988, the Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health attributed 35 percent of cancer deaths to diet, saying

beans, berries, veggies, and more. The reason we love them: They're known lymphagogues—meaning they promote the production of lymph.

dietary fat was linked to them. The American diet is full of the so-called "bad" fats, saturated fats derived from animal and dairy sources and fried foods (oxidized, also known as "rancid" fats). Studies have shown that even fats once thought to be healthy, such as margarines and other trans fats, actually promote degenerative disease. The American Heart Association and National Cancer Institute recommend that the

Consider supplementation. The standard American diet (SAD) that most Americans follow has way too many simple carbohydrates like sugar and starch, as well as unhealthy oils that lead to inflammatory

We Don't Get Enough Fiber: We know that the word "fiber" is something you may associate with old age, constipation, or both. But the fact is that Americans don't get enough of this colon-cleansing form of carbohydrates. This low-fiber diet is directly related to our high incidence of hemorrhoids

such as magnesium, zinc, chromium, manganese, molybdenum, and selenium; as well as anti-inflammatory and antioxidative nutrients such as curcumin, resveratrol, N-acetyl-cysteine, and pterostilbene.

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Magnesium Fish oil D-ribose Polyphenols

recommend these two approaches to start: Concentrate on whole foods, not processed ones. The number one thing you can do to help control your weight is concentrate on whole foods—that is, foods that appear as they come from the earth. So, yes, that means fish, beans, veggies. That doesn't mean things

Try fasting. "Intermittent fasting" is defined in medicine as taking only water for 16 hours, coupled with eating normally for 8 hours (or other schedules such as 18 and 6, 20 and 4, 22 and 2, etc.). For example, you could simply not eat after eight p.m., then skip breakfast the next day, followed by eating a normal lunch and dinner.